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GO COWS! I'm a big fan of leadership and marketing author/blogger Seth Godin. His books and posts have great insight and always seem to be helpful to me as director of Oceans Edge School. I recommend you follow his blog and read his best seller, Purple Cow-Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable. Seth wrote a blog last week titled The coming melt-down in higher education (as seen by a

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From "The Message" version of the Bible. I love the way this reads: Romans 121 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.  2 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit

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Hiromi's Sonicbloom has become a bit of an obsession for me lately. I can't get enough. Not since Chick Corea's Electric band debut have I loved fusion this much. It is a great balance of chops, beauty, arrangements. Just great artistry all around!Hiromi, God has blessed you! I wonder if you know Him? You should thank Him. Until then, I will thank Him for you.Enjoy!

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Ocean's Edge School is more than a school of music and discipleship, it is a life changing experience!I am a big fan of Starbucks. I mean, who isn't! Yeah, I know, Dave Ramsey has already told me I could give up my Latte, save the $4 each day, and retire with $1,000,000. I don't care. I need my starbucks! Can I get an Amen?I just finished reading The Starbucks Experience by Joseph Michelli.It was

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This is what we are working on in the Ocean's Edge Drum Studio

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What if you could sit down across your desk with some of the best leaders in today's church and hear what they would say to you? That's the idea behind THE NINES. THE NINES is a free one-day event that will take place totally on-line. It is designed for all church staff members who want to be motivated and stretched in their leadership. One Day... 9/9/09 at 9:09 AM It's Free, but you have to

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In June, Phil Wickham was leading at the church where Oceans Edge School is located, Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale. Whenever an artist comes, we schedule some time with them to get some insight into their world and to learn some practical tips. Here is some video from the session he did in June: In this clip, Phil tells the story of how he became interested in music and the progression from

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Here's another blog for my students:Well, there are less than 2 weeks left of your time here.As sad is that is for you guys, I think it's worse for us as staff. We have our hearts ripped out of our chests like this year after year. It's actually pretty emotionally draining on us....it sucks!I think we all have our ways of dealing with the end of the year. Some sing into a deep depression.....

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We have finished recording drums and slot of bass. Jake has made great progress with acoustic guitars over at his studio. Today our vox coach Jessica joined him and is helping the singers to do their best. We were able to borrow some key microphones from the CCFL studio to help us out. On vocals we are using an SM7 (as used on the Thriller record) and aOk drums we borrowed a matched pair of Audix

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FYI, this was my weekly blog to my students at OES:Its was a good week at OES.I think we all needed the Easter break. I am always happier after Easter. It is just such an amazing holiday. I still can't believe that Jesus really did this for me! wow!The staff got some needed rest. I hope you feel refreshed as well.I really love leading this school. I love the people and I love the creative

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Today we watched the Vocal Techniques Class final exam/recital. The timing of everything right now is crazy because we are also preparing for the Night of Worship, Encounter, tonight.In addition to 2 group "choral" pieces, there were smaller groups who performed arrangements they had made of hymns. The arrangements were in 4 part harmony.The class instructor was Jessica Busboom one of our

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Here is a picture of real leadership. The guy with the guitar is Andrew, the worship leader at Calvary Chapel Boca. He's also a graduate of Ocean's Edge School of Worship year #1. The guy in black singing is Mike. He's a current student and a ripping guitarist. So we send Mike up to Andrew at the Boca church for some experience. What does Andrew do....take the opportunity to have a hot guitarist

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I have worked at the church for almost four years and it is wonderful. But as I sit and watch the Thursday night rehearsal at Calvary chapel Boca, there are things I miss about the old days of volunteerism.Trisha is wearing scrubs. I imagine she just finished a 12 hour shift on her feet at the hospital. And now she is joyfully rehearsing in this church where the air conditioning is off. All of

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I like a wide variety of music. My music time line might look something like this: * 1967-1975 Subjected to/influenced by parents music: jazz, James Taylor, Karen Carpenter, etc * 1975-1980 Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Bob Segar, Elton John, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Journey, Yes * 1980-1983 Led Zepplin, Rush: I learned nearly ALL songs on drums * 1984-1985 Continue the rock, but I discover the

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I went to the Tye Tribbett concert in West Palm Beach last night.I like Tye. I have some of his CD's and the "Stand" DVD. It's incredible!I bought 10 tickets in a block so a bunch of us could go. I'm glad some of our worship leaders from church and a few students got to experience the concert. Everyone loved it!I sat next to one of our students who is really "into" the modern worship (white)

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I am beginning to think creativity is over-rated in worship.It sneaks in in various forms and for many very noble reasons like:Wanting to leave room for the Spirit to moveAllowing "creative" musicians some freedomChanging a song to "make it ours"A worship leader who wants to present a creative arrangementThere are more, but these are some that have effected me recently.I think these are good

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Here is a video drumset lesson that explains some things I have been trying to work into my playing lately.

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Effective leaders INcourage.....they GIVE courage. Behavioral psychogists have pretty much concluded that people only do what they WANT to do. We also no that ordinary people are capable of extrordinary things. So let's try this .... Rather than telling them that you need them to climb that mountain, talk to them and encourage them, INcourage them, give them the courage they need to believe they

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So I teach college age students who aspire to be worship leaders and/or Christian artists. Like most music schools, we take the approach of teaching the fundamentals of your respective instrument by breaking things down into smaller pieces and striving to improve technique, tone, range, technical proficiency, even speaking to an audience.It sounds really good on paper. It should work. I mean,

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